The Sailmaker’s Whipping looks exactly like a needle and palm one but is not actually stitched to the rope, the worming parts passing behind each strand. To begin, a loop of whipping twine is passed round a strand of the unlaid rope’s end, which is then laid up to include the twine. The rope’s end is then whipped with the twine. The original loop is dropped over the end of the strand it was formed round and pulled tight using the end protruding beneath the whipping. This end is then wormed up to the top of the whipping and tied off to the other end of the twine with a Reef or Surgeon’s Knot.